Browns Diary, Week 9: The Less Said, the Better

Los Angeles 27, Cleveland 10

On the plane for Philadelphia—I’ll be at the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill, N.J., tonight to talk WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL with NFL Films guru Chris Willis. Tailgate starts at 6 p.m., gametime is 7 p.m. Hope to see you there! Tickets here.

Also, the veterans committee has released their 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. I more or less nailed the ballot here… but I’ll try to get you a full recap this afternoon or, at the latest, tomorrow morning, based on how the day goes. I’ll get to the Gold Gloves, too.

Finally, thank you all for sending in your VII (Viable Insane Ideas) for making baseball better. Hundreds of you have sent in VIIs, and while I haven’t really had a chance to look them all over yet, the ones I’ve seen are delightfully nutty. We’ll have a lot of fun talking about these over the next while.

“So extremely disappointed, and we’ve got to learn from this.”

“We have to be better, and we will be better.”

“We have to do a better job.”

“We have to play better on all three sides of the ball. But we own it.”

“We’re not playing good enough to win a football game. So that’s our focus.”

“You learn from every mistake.”

“We just have to play better as a team.”

—Our Guy Kevin Stefanski after the Browns’ crushing defeat

A couple weeks ago, Kevin Stefanski did something I honestly never thought he would do: